Quotes About Intelligence

Knowing things is not the same as understanding them. Comprehension is not the same thing as analysis. Expertise is a not a parlor game played with factoids.

There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Grosse plodders they were all, that had some learning and reading, but no wit to make use of it.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason.

Her türlü yanl??a kar?? en amans?z silah Ak?l'd?r.

Knowledge management is a great oxymoron.

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

Intellect is not wisdom.

Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

With tire Master-Key in his possession, the student may unlock the many doors of the mental and psychic temple of knowledge, and enter the same freely and intelligently. This Principle explains the true nature of "Energy," "Power," and "Matter," and why and how all these are subordinate to the Mastery of Mind.

In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would not lose out in reasoned argument or be taken by surprise by their quick-witted opponents, they boldly moved into action. Their enemies,on the contrary, contemptuous and confident in their ability to anticipate, thought there was no need to take by action what they could win by their brains.

In fact, as human beings, we are by nature social animals, and our happiness and even survival depend upon our interaction and cooperation. So when positive emotions guide intelligence, it become constructive. The warm, compassionate heart is the basis for peace of mind, without which the mind will always be uncomfortable and disturbed.

Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.

It's easy to jeer at the thought anthills (too easy). In spite of it all, even a nullifidian like me has seen goodness, bravery, even intelligence. The really decent people I've known, no one else would have heard of; decency seems to bar you from high office and prominence. But they're there. Those who spout concern for others, the welfare 'n' solicitude fiends, are the ones who bully waiters, neglect their children and who pay their gardeners pittances.

No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity.

My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'

Agents and spies playing deep and dangerous games of intelligence and counterintelligence also soon made their way to the Ritz.

Ethnic jokes are the last refuge of a bankrupt intellect.

We don't simply say something that's untrue. We make statements so insane that there's no possible intelligent response. Like arguing with some old fart in a rocking chair who claims we never landed on the moon. Any educated person can only laugh. Meanwhile, we've just won over all the non-moon-landing votes.

The brain wasn't engineered to deal with that rarefied level of dumbness.

You're really smart.